What is the stacuity programmable network?

Stacuity provides cellular connectivity. It has been designed for IoT and other data-centric applications.

Our platform has been built for innovators, developers and anyone else who needs flexible, reliable and secure connectivity which can be precisely configured for their applications and devices. Whereas ordinary networks provide a service - giving limited control and insight into their configuration and performance, our network is designed as a platform - for you to build-on.

To use the stacuity network and platform, you need a SIM card - available directly from us, or via one of our distribution partners. Once inserted into a suitable device, and linked with your account, you can immediately control and monitor all aspects of behaviour in real time - just as if you had your own mobile network.

Stacuity SIM cards work wherever we have coverage through our network of partners. We have coverage on over 600 networks in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Depending on their location, our SIM cards work on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks - and most of our advanced capabilities will work in the same way.

Everything is controllable via our rich API, or using our management portal which we have built using this API. If you are familiar with using cloud platforms for deploying, configuring, managing and monitoring virtual servers, infrastructure and services then you'll feel right at home using stacuity to do the same for your own programmable mobile network.

Concepts

The stacuity platform, API and portal is based around a number of key concepts - which together are used to configure the network to meet the needs of the application.


VSlice	An independent, logical network
Endpoint Group	Within a VSlice, groups endpoints with common configuration and requirements
Endpoint	Represents a device/SIM, contained within an Endpoint Group
Operator Policy	Controls where endpoints can be used (by country or network operator)
Routing Target	External networks which Endpoints can communicate with
Routing Policy	Rules which control the flow of data between Endpoints, Routing Targets and Edge Services.
Edge Services	Secure, advanced services provided from within the stacuity network and accessible by Endpoints.
Event Handlers	External webhooks for receiving notifications from the network
Event Maps	Controls what types of events are sent to which Event Handlers
Regional Policies	Configure the region your endpoint connectivity enter our global stacuity network

The diagram above shows how these concepts relate to each other.

A single customer account can contain multiple VSlices.
VSlices contain Endpoint Groups, Routing Policies and Routing Targets. Each Endpoint Group can refer to a single Routing Policy, but a Routing Policy can be shared by multiple Endpoint Groups (in the same VSlice)
Event Maps and Operator Policies are independent of an particular VSlice, so they can be shared by Endpoint Groups in different VSlices.